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#53 (2015)

Published April 2015

Theme: Broken

“Welcome to our broken issue. We have broken trees and broken glass, a foundling and a changeling, a demon lover, a lost leader losing his head, and two trapped women smashing the lock(et). Our poets speak of cold breezes and blackened blossoms, lute strings and chains of gold, broken factories, bodies side by side and waiting, the chime of coins, and ancient waves breaking over our heads.”

Locket, by Patricia Russo

Day, Sun, Night (poem), by Sonya Taaffe

When the Queen of Afrits Took Three Steps in the Sand (poem), by Alexandra Seidel

Half the War Is a Memory of Trees, by Mat Joiner

When Can a Broken Glass Mend?, by Sonya Taaffe

The Field (poem), by Alex Harper

First Morning of the Last Man Alive (poem), by Kent Kruse

Foundling, by JD DeLuzio

I even recall the cold breeze (Mercer Bears hoops 3:16) (poem), by CEE